Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.